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Seems so weird in retrospect that Microsoft wouldn’t have seen the value of an easily composable and programmatic way to configure anything in Windows and their
by eigenvalue 2y ago
Seems so weird in retrospect that Microsoft wouldn’t have seen the value of an easily composable and programmatic way to configure anything in Windows and their other important enterprise applications like Active Directory and Exchange. The idea that connecting with Remote Desktop and clicking around with a mouse was suggested as an alternative strikes me as absurd. Especially because automating that sort of thing (at least based on my experience using autohotkey and window spy) is horrendously difficult and annoying.
- akira2501 2y ago> an easily composable and programmatic way to configure anything in Windows There's an entire industry of consultants and software vendors that don't want that outcome. > connecting with Remote Desktop and clicking around with a mouse This generates a lot of hours. > is horrendously difficult and annoying. It is ironic that this is probably the main reason that alternative operating systems even exist.
- generalizations 2y agoPiling on, it's that industry of consultants and software vendors that keep windows in use. Microsoft protects those consultants, and those consultants protect Microsoft's market share.
- jen20 2y agoEven crazier is that the “click around” mentality made its way into azure too - back in the day (a decade ago, to be fair) I had a serious suggestion from a technical support agent there that the best way to automate some setting was with Selenium…